Fediverse

Also, I hope we can all make a concerted effort to be nicer to each other. It's the internet so that's not always easy but I do think that's one of the things holding us back.

I see a new post.
I click, I read, I scroll on.
I am the lurker.

#haiku (<- test to see how far this propagates in the mastodon / microblogging part of the fediverse)

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uh i guess i'll post a minecraft build somewhere on lemmy tomorrow if i remember to

I love the goal this port is trying to achieve, and I try not to be negative about content. But lately I’ve seen the kind of gate keeping that is souring people on that other site.

I’ve had 2 fairly recent examples of it. In one case, the community pushed back on the poster for being an ass. They repeatedly doubled down, and were repeatedly called out for it. It was good to see.

The second was a mod applying a definition to a community that doesn’t exist in its stated rules. I haven’t finished with that one yet, but depending on how my response plays out, I’ll be done with that community, and I’ll just go back to that other site. The particular community is excellent both here and in R-world, so I won’t miss much by saying goodbye to it on Lemmy. I’ll be sad, though.

Great posts from .Zip admins as usual

For people interested in growing communities, there is !fedigrow@lemmy.zip

I'd like to suggest removing timestamps on all comments, like you could still toggle a button to see the timestamp of a comment if you wanted to, but the timestamp shown on default doesn't serve any purpose other than tell the users how fresh or how stale the conversation is. When the conversation is say only a few hours old, many users will choose not to engage because we assume the conversation is over and there isn't any point in engaging further, so we skip altogether and move on. I can tell from my own experience I've done this more than a few times, I'm sure others have as well. When you only have a few thousand users across the world, unlike Reddit, we must preserve the freshness of the few conversations we do have so as to increase engagement from all.

Thanks for letting us know and giving a lil push!

I comment. Reminds me of how I'd end up playing medic in tfc/tf2- someone has to do it.

I don't post original stuff often, though.

Well I agree. I post on lemmy or mastodon-like first, then only after on Reddit if I must. Many times I get a few but meaningful replies, that’s good.

u know what? maybe we should start actively advertising the fediverse in local hacker clubs and such.

The problem with contributing is that most of my Lemmy browsing is done while I'm on the can, and phone keyboards suck.

I’m doing my part!

I just realized something: When I search for something in Lemmy and get zero results, I sometimes go to Reddit and search there.

It would probably be better to make a new post in Lemmy about the thing I'm searching for. It would add content to Lemmy, and the content would be newer and fresher than the Reddit results that are sometimes 10+ years old.

Sooo is water wet, or it just makes things wet?

o7

It shall be done, friends

All decent advice. Here's a thought experiment.

Start a discussion, debate, or ponder about [etc]

By the same token it would be bad to stop such a discussion, right? Right.

Make new communities if you don’t see one that fits

Therefore it would be bad to *destroy" such communities, right? Indeed.

Upvote the things you like

So, it would be bad to downvote the things you - personally, subjectively - don't like - right? It wouldn't? Why so?

Don't downvote other people's good-faith opinions. It's petty, it's juvenile, it's toxic. Even if you don't see it that way. It's precisely what will discourage the participation we all want to see.